Tracy has been with Gadsden Schneider & Woodward LLP since September 2004. Before she joined Chris Gadsden, Pam Schneider and Steve Woodward as their fourth partner, Tracy was a partner and chair of the Estates and Trusts department of the West Chester-based firm of Lamb McErlane, P.C.
Tracy’s practice focuses on sophisticated estate planning for wealthy individuals, estate and trust administration, charitable gift planning and fiduciary law. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and is currently a member of its Fiduciary Income Tax Committee, Practice Committee and Family Law Task Force. She is a member of the Advisory Committee on Decedents’ Estates Laws of the Pennsylvania General Assembly Joint State Government Commission. Past positions include several leadership roles within the Income and Transfer Tax Planning Group of the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association. Tracy was a 2007-2010 Chancellor’s Appointee to the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association Section on Probate and Trust Law.
Professional honors include a rating of AV Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell each year since 2004, a “Super Lawyer” designation by Thompson Reuters from 2020 through 2024, and recognition by The Best Lawyers in America for her work in the area of Trusts and Estates from 2012 through 2024.
Tracy received her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Villanova University School of Law. She served as law clerk to The Honorable Raymond J. Broderick of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania following her graduation from law school. She went on to practice for five years at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis in Philadelphia.
Tracy served as a Director of the ARC Community Trust of Southeastern Pennsylvania from its founding in 2001 to 2011. She has written and lectured on a variety of trust and estate planning and administration topics at the local, state and national level.
Assistant:
Patti Heller
484-683-2610
pheller@gsw-llp.com
